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FEBRUARY, 1885: 



AN ADDRESS 

DELIVERED BEFORE THE 

SOCIETY OF THE 

SONS OF THE STATE OF MAINE 

IN ILLINOIS, 

AT ITS 

SECOND ANNUAL MEETING, 

AT THE 

Palmer House, Chicago, March 15, 1882. 

BY 

J. YOUNG SCAMMON. 

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TOGETHER WITH 

A SKETCH OF ITS ORGANIZATION AND PROCEEDINGS, 

CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, 

LIST OF OFFICERS, AND ROLL OF MEMBERS. 



CHICAGO: 
FERGUS PRINTING COMPANY 

1882. 



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ADDRESS 



"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said. 
This is my own, my native land?" 

WE were born and mostly raised upon the Maine land 
of the old Atlantic Ocean. The sun, in his daily 
circuit round the globe, as he reaches our National border, 
first casts his glorious image upon our native shores. 

The waters which, for 2486 miles, lave its rock-bound 
coasts, by their exhaustless wealth in the finny tribes, pre- 
sented the first great encouraging invitation and induce- 
ment to the hardy European seamen to visit our harbors 
For years before the Mayfloivcr, under providential guid- 
ance, landed the Republicanized Leyden Pilgrims in Ply- 
mouth Harbor, the rich water prairies of the North-east 
Atlantic were well known to the fishing squadrons of 
Europe, and annually filled their shallops with their rich 
productions. Great Britain alone, as early as 1608, is said 
to have sent out 108 vessels annually, and France proba- 
bly as many more. 

The ocean is the grand highway of nations, and when, 
for any cause, an exodus from an old continent to a new 



one becomes necessary, it furnishes its piscatorial manna 
to all faithful pilgrims, to sustain them in their wilderness 
journey to the land of promise, while seeking a new home 
in a strange and unknown land. 

Great bodies of water are always grand and sublime. 
They may lack the majestic height of cloud-capped moun- 
tains, but their vision is bounded only by the horizon. 
Their grandeur and fruitful capacity to support life, and 
contribute to the conveniences and necessities of man, 
awaken in our hearts both awe and gratitude. 

Maine was always an inviting coast. Its clusters of 
islands and safe and commodious harbors were so numer- 
ous and inviting, that the early French and British navi- 
gators and explorers never ceased extolling their charms. 
How long before authentic history the beauties and advan- 
tages of the coast of Maine were known, we can not tell. 

While it is true that Massachusetts was first permanently 
settled, the shores of Maine were first visited, colonists 
earliest sent out, and earnest and well-considered measures 
taken to make permanent settlements upon them before 
the Scrooby people sailed for Holland. The Gift of God, 
laden with its 120 persons for planters, and assistants, includ- 
ing George Popham as president, John Scammon as secre- 
tary, and Richard Seymour as preacher, entered the mouth 
of Sagadahoc, now Kennebec, River, and made a settle- 
ment upon the peninsula of Sabino, thirteen years before 
the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Whatever dis- 
couragements, interruptions, or apparent abandonment 
of settlement happened to them, the idea of perma- 
nent settlement was never abandoned by Sir P^ernando 



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Gorges, the heroic promoter of the colonization of Maine. 
This settlement completed the British title which before 
was claimed only by discovery. From that time on, 
vessels continued to visit the coast, and fishermen to 
come in increased numbers, spending the summer and 
early autumn in its prolific waters. 

Would it not be unreasonable to suppose that none of 
the persons, who formed temporary residences upon its 
islands and coasts, remained.^ 

So great was the multitude of vessels visiting these 
shores, that it is said that between 1607 and 1622, fifteen 
years, 109 ships entered and cleared at Pemaquid, the an- 
cient seat of governmental power on the coast of Maine. 
But for relief obtained from these fishing squadrons, the 
Plymouth Colony would have become extinct from star- 
vation. 

Maine was not wholly settled by the British. The 
French made early settlements in eastern Sagadahoc, or 
between the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Bays. A 
greater national variety existed in the early Maine colo- 
nists than in those of Massachusetts. 

Changes of government in Great Britain, and conflicting 
claims of jurisdiction under different grants from the 
Crown and the Plymouth company, were serious obstacles 
to the prosperity and early growth of our native State. 

This Plymouth company, previous to 1635, divided 
Maine into three parts, the west portion, from New Hamp- 
shire to the Kennebunk, was given to the Gorges; Rigby's 
portion was from the Kennebunk to the Kennebec; and 
the Sagadahoc from the Kennebec to the Penobscot; while 



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the French claimed, and for a long time held all east of 
the latter river. 

From 1635 to 1677, in which latter year the Massachu- 
setts colony purchased out the Gorges heirs and thereafter 
claimed jurisdiction over the whole of Maine, there were, 
at different times, conflicting claims to its government, and 
the actual administration thereof frequently changed hands. 

In 1679-80, its provincial government was established; 
but in 1680, Sir Edmond Andros claimed the control of 
the province as a part of the dukedom of York, and as be- 
ing under the jurisdiction of his government at New York. 
This continued till the charter of William and Mary was 
granted in 1691, when Sir Wm. Phipps, a native of Maine, 
was appointed the first Royal Governor of the Province of 
Massachusetts, including the whole of Maine. From that 
period to 1820, it remained legally a part of Massachu- 
setts, though always rather as an annex than a part of its 
unit. 

In feeling, Maine never was a part of Massachusetts. 
Though it sought and was glad to be under the govern- 
ment of the latter, for a while, to receive protection and 
defence against outbreaks of warlike savages and the en- 
croachments of its eastern neighbors, it always looked for- 
ward to its own integral autonomy. 

As early as 1775, it took earnest measures to procure 
separation from Massachusetts. These efforts were pushed 
for a long while, but it may be doubted whether they 
would ever have proved successful if a Republican govern- 
ment had not first been elected in Massachusetts by the 
aid of the preponderance of Republican votes in Maine. 



Sometime before the separation, it became manifest to 
the Federal party in Massachusetts that their ascendancy 
would be in danger so long as the District of Maine con- 
stituted a portion of that Commonwealth, and this weak- 
ened their desire to retain that district in its jurisdiction, 
while the Republicans of Maine were very willing to set 
up for themselves and elect their great leader, William 
King, sometimes called the "Duke of Bath," for its first 
governor. 

As early as 1807, James Sullivan, a native of Maine, its 
first historian, and a Jeffersonian Republican, was chosen 
governor of Massachusetts, defeating the old Federal in- 
cumbent, Caleb Strong; and an entire Republican admin- 
istration came into power at the same time, through Maine 
votes. 

There was always a marked difference between the peo- 
ple of the two provinces. Those of Massachusetts were 
more homogeneous and generally more orderly than com- 
munities composed largely of fishermen and sailors, as 
were many of the early settlers on the coast of our native 
State. But it can not be said that the early Episcopal 
and Presbyterian settlers in Maine forgot their religion. 
They brought it with them, as did all the Maine colonists, 
whether Roman Catholic French in the East, German 
Lutherans at Waldoborough, or Scotch-Irish Presbyte- 
rians at Pemaquid, and all along the coast. They never 
neglected their religion or failed to seek for spiritual help 
and instruction by procuring ministers of the gospel. 

Although with the assertion of jurisdiction by Massa- 
chusetts, came the Puritan religious institutions and gov- 



ernment, Maine always sighed for greater religious free- 
dom. It did not like an established church, and when the 
new lights — the Methodists and Baptists — began to show 
themselves there, they found so many followers or adhe- 
rents, that it was not long before the odious "ministers' 
tax" was resisted by the Quakers and others, and the 
money raised by tax, for the support of the gospel, com- 
pelled to be divided among the different denominations. 

When the State was admitted into the Union, although 
the Presbyterian organization had disappeared, the Meth- 
odists, Baptists, and other dissenters from the state church 
constituted a very large majority; and it can not be 
doubted that opposition to Massachusetts control had 
much to do with this result. 

Mr. William Sullivan, a son of Governor Sullivan, but 
who became a Federalist, says, in his Familiar Letters, that 
the difference between the Federal and Republican parties 
of 1800 consisted mainly in this, that the former thought 
more of law, the latter of liberty. The crests of the States 
of Massachusetts and Maine indicate, perhaps, the same 
difference. In the one it is a sword to command, in the 
other it is a star in the east, to guide or lead to the right. 
As soon as the distinction between the Federalists and 
Republicans began to show itself, tendencies in Maine 
were as decidedly toward the Republican party as were 
those of Massachusetts to Federalism. 

The early inhabitants of Maine, whether Indian or 
European, have always heen /yarcs inter pares, peers among 
peers; and if, at any time, as was the case in two instances, 
knighthood was possessed by any of its sons, it was not 



inherited, but given as a reward for personally brave and 
gallant conduct. 

While we refer with pleasure and satisfaction to the lives 
of men who have heroically, or in deeds of charity, en- 
graved their names upon the history of our State, we do 
not forget that they were just such men as we are our- 
selves, neither better nor worse, except so far as the one 
or the other has most faithfully endeavored to develop and 
•use the powers with which they were entrusted in our com- 
mon humanity by our Heavenly Father. 

The tendency to fall down and worship men belongs to 
an older and departing age. Even the inspired writer of 
the Apocalypse was reproved by the angel, as he writes, 
when he says, "I fell down to worship before the feet of 
the angel which showed me these things. Then said he 
unto me, 'See tJion do it not, for I am thy fellow-servant, 
and of thy brethren, the prophets.' " 

One of our most gifted writers has well said, "Nothing, 
to the true taste, is so offensive as mere hyperism. In 
Germany, ivoJilgcborcn — tvdl-born — is a loftier title than 
edclgcboroi — noble-born ; and, in Greece, the thrice victori- 
ous at the Olympic games could claim a statue of the size 
of life, while he who had conquered but once was entitled 
only to a colossal." 

Living men, whose deeds do honor to their name, 
Never need to boast of ancestral fame; 
They do most honor to the paternal home, 
Whose paths in life ne'er from the just do roam. 

Perhaps the most philosophic view that can be taken of 
society is that which regards it as in human form, each and 



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every province having its own peculiar quality and char- 
acter. Nations and their various portions have their spec- 
ial characteristics, and it is often, if not always, difficult to 
determine what causes the variations. The fact is fully 
recognized that there is a very marked difference between 
persons born of English parentage in America, and those 
born of like ancestors in the paternal home. There is an 
undefinable somewhat which differentiates the one from 
the other, though we may not be able to define its char- 
acter or see its cause. The fact exists, and we must 
accept it in judging of the character and conduct of 
inhabitants of various countries, and even different por- 
tions of the same country. New England consists of six 
separate States, each marked by its own peculiarities, as 
well in population as in territory. That of Massachusetts 
has two well-defined and separate original sources, the 
Plymouth Pilgrims and the Massachusetts Puritans. 

Maine, as has been before stated, was not originally a 
part of Massachusetts. It had its own settlements and 
governments, distinct from those of Massachusetts, for 
several periods before it was finally united with it after the 
purchase of the Gorges title in 1677. 

Though, for a time, the settlers in Maine rejoiced to be 
under the protection of Massachusetts, and the province 
was extensively colonized therefrom, the original impress 
given to it by its early independent settlements was never 
lost. It always looked forward to its own integral govern- 
ment, and never felt free until it had thrown off tli^ yoke 
of the former State. The Ph'mouth Pilgrims were Demo- 
crats and Republicans in their principles, and to them 



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Massachusetts and the Country are indebted for what was 
truly Republican and representative in the government of 
Massachusetts, after the union of the two colonies. 

The Massachusetts Puritans were markedly the reverse. 
Their rulers prided themselves upon their ancestry and 
their grants of royal authority. And many of their 
descendants have not forgotten to exalt themselves upon 
these pretensions, even at this remote day. 

The Pilgrims were more fully penetrated with the chris- 
tian spirit of human brotherhood. They had dwelt for a 
season under the cegis of the Dutch Republic, and had 
learned that there should be both religious and political 
equality, as to rights, in every community. 

The motto of our native State is Dirigo — / lead, and 
it well expresses the peculiar characteristics of the Maine 
man, as I read his history. 

As a class, the Maine men have been bold and energetic, 
compelled by necessity and encouraged by example to 
courageously assume command, at least of themselves, at 
an early age. The boys on the coast were early accus- 
tomed to the sea, and many of them looked forward to 
voyages upon the briny deep as the sources of their fort- 
unes. They were accustomed to assist their parents on 
their farms, in their fisheries, or other employments, at an 
early age. When they went to school, they took their 
turns in sweeping the school-house and building fires; and 
such of them as expected to get a liberal education usually 
supplemented their fathers endeavors by their own labors 
in vacation. The rule was, when I was in college there, 
that the students taught public or private schools during 



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the long winter vacations, and, when necessity required it, 
got leave of absence during a portion of term time, to con- 
tinue their school teaching, on condition of keeping up 
with their classes by private study. No young man in 
Maine was expected to live without labor. Instead of grow- 
ing up with expectancy of an inheritance from their fathers, 
the minor boys often purchased their time till they should 
arrive at age, feeling that their own intelligence and indus- 
try was worth more to them than it could be to their 
parents. 

It has been said the boys went to sea, but they rarely 
crept in at the cabin-windows. . They sailed as appren- 
tices or before the mast, and expected to reach the 
command of a vessel only through regularly-earned gra- 
dation. 

This quality made them the best of fishermen and 
sailors, and furnished to the nation, in all our wars, a hardy, 
energetic, bold, and reliable marine arm of defence. The 
necessities of individual exertion and mutual protection 
fostered in them free Republican and fraternal feelings, as 
well as self-reliance in character. 

It was such experience that made Pepperell the com- 
mander, when a brave, bold, and capable man was required 
to reduce Port Royal, and, at a later day, gave William 
Phipps command at Louisburg, and made him the first 
royal governor of Massachusetts. 

No better schools are to be found in the world than those 
in the State of Maine. They commenced with its first 
settlement. They were the schools of necessity and exer- 
tion. No Maine man has grown up with the idea that he 
could have a silver spoon unless he earned it himself 



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Its college graduates, while rendering homage to their 
alma mater, do not lay claim to preeminence from having 
been graduated at old or renovved colleges or universities. 
They rarely thought much of the honors of the university, 
but more of the building up of the being they were to be, 
by its learning and instruction. They have made a satis- 
factory record. 

From John Ouincy Adams to James A. Garfield, the 
only president of the United States who was graduated 
from a New England college received his degree in 
Maine. We may well be satisfied with the record in 
literature and law when we can present among those who 
have been born or educated in the State, such names as 
Greenleaf, Hilliard, Hawthorne, and Longfellow. 

Though our State has given the Country no president, 
except through his education, it is behind no other State 
in proportion to the number of its inhabitants in the 
services it has rendered the nation. It furnished great and 
reliable military and naval commanders in both our wars 
with Great Britain. Each hall of Congress bears witness 
to the wisdom and fidelity of its statesmanship. It has 
been ably represented in every department of the national 
government. If we except Daniel Webster, there have 
been no abler men in the Senate of the United States 
than George Evans and Willi*im Pitt Fessenden; and 
Maine is now, and always has been, as creditably repre- 
sented in each House of Congress as any other New 
England State. 

Self-reliant qualities have made our citizens leading men 
among their fellow-men, wherever they might be found. 



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In no department of the great useful professions or in 
business life have they been lacking, or failed to do credit 
to the land of their birth and education. 

Before the separation of the District of Maine from 
Massachusetts it furnished one of the senators of the 
United States, the late Chief-Justice Mellen; and the 
Cumberland Bar was pronounced by him the ablest and 
most learned within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. 

If mere blood, ancestral honors, or easily-accumulated 
or overgrown wealth would tell in historical growth, Spain 
and Italy should now be the commanding nations of the 
world. They discovered America, and Spain was the first 
in America of all European colonists, and a great power 
in the East. Where is she today.-* We can not look 
back for greatness. Berkley but expressed a universal 
historic truth when he wrote, in his Newport home, 
"Westward the course of Empire takes its way;" and 
our own Richard Hampton Vose, in a poem delivered at 
Waterville College (now Colby University), the year I 
entered that institution, has tersely and eloquently ex- 
pressed the same sentiment in these speaking lines: 

" Man's course is onward, ages back 
Are but the foot-prints of his giant track; 
And he who pauses where briglit deeds were done, 
May look for stars beneath the midday sun." 

But while we can not live upon the glories of the past, 
we may yet be encouraged by recognizing those traits in 
our ancestors which enabled them to fill their measures as 
men. 

W^e may well admire and imitate the leading character- 



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istics of our native State. Maine was not only first or 
pioneer in settlements of all the New England States, but 
its pioneer character has been exemplified in its entire 
history, whether Colonial, District, or State. The first 
conflict with the savages and settlers of New France was 
there. During the old French war, its lands and waters 
were crimsoned with human blood. 

When it became necessary to reduce Port Royal for the 
protection of the New England coasts, it was a Maine 
man, William Pepperell, who commanded the expedition, 
and achieved victory and success. When Louisburg must 
be silenced, another Maine man. Sir William Phipps, 
secured the commission. 

Before the battle of Bunker Hill, or the skirmishes at 
Concord or Lexington, the war of the Revolution had 
been commenced in Maine. The first naval battle fought, 
and the first naval prize taken, took place in the port of 
Machias, in 1774. Benjamin Foster and Jeremiah O'Brien 
seized two boat-loads of provisons which had been sent 
from Boston to that port by the British Admiral Graves, 
to be exchanged for lumber, for the use of the British 
troops; captured their naval consort, and, shortly after- 
ward, the Schooner Diligence, carrying four 4-pound guns, 
and the Schooner TatuiagoucJi. For these brave deeds 
they received a vote of thanks at the hands of the Provin- 
cial Congress, and subsequently. Col. O'Brien was appointed 
by Jefferson, at the instance of Albert Gallatin, who had 
made his acquaintance at Machias, collector of the port, 
which office he held for eight years. I saw him in the 
House of Representatives at Portland, Maine, in 1826, 
when my father first took a seat in that body. 



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Maine, though so early attracting the attention of 
navigators and colonists, and though as rich, if not 
richer, than any other State in New England, in natu- 
ral resources, is, in its history, perhaps less known than 
any other of the older- settled portions of the Coun- 
try. It is, nevertheless, a great State. It is nearly 
300 miles square; its exact dimensions being said to 
be 303 miles in length, by a breadth of 288 miles, con- 
taining 31,500 square miles, or only about 1200 miles less 
territory than the whole of the residue of New England. 
Its wealth in all the elements which go to make up a 
powerful, prosperous, and permanent commonwealth are 
little known to the nation, except through its great ship- 
building ports. Its carrying trade has never been lacking, 
and the sails of its ships whiten every sea. The natural 
history of the State is varied and beautiful. Almost every 
variety of soil is found in it, and although it can never vie 
with our prairie home in the productions of the soil, it will 
yet rank well in its agriculture. I visited a portion of it 
last September, and the valleys of the Kennebec and An- 
droscoggin, the City of Portland, Augusta, the capital of 
the State, and its renowned manufacturing city, Lewiston, 
with its lesser neighbor Auburn, presented goodly sights 
to look upon. The landscapes were green and beautiful. 
The fields were clothed with verdure, and the orchards 
filled with fruit. Apples, pears, and plums hung from 
every bough, and, in quality, many of them could not be 
surpassed. 

I was in Lewiston at the great State Eair, and the exhi- 
bition, not onl}- of sheep, cattle, and horses, did honor to 



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the State, but even delicious peaches were there exhibited, 
raised in the open gardens of Lewiston. 

The hills of Maine are full of health-giving springs of 
water, some of which have proved of such great efficacy, 
that they are shipped and sold all over the Country. Chi- 
cago has a depot for the sale of the water from the famous 
Poland Springs. 

Maine, with little danger of overflow, is perhaps the 
best watered State in the Union. From the summit of 
Mount Katahdin it is said to look like a vast sea, crowded 
with wooded islands. There are reported to be 1800 lakes 
and 5 15 1 streams drawn upon the map of the State, includ- 
ing those most beautiful and majestic rivers, the Kennebec 
and Penobscot, of the latter of which, under the ancient 
name of Norembega, mention is made in Milton's Para- 
dise Lost, where he says: 

"Now from the North 
Of Norembega and the Samoyed shore, 
Bursting their barren dungeons, armed with ice 
And snow and hail." 

Milton had not seen Maine as I saw it last fall, and as 
we have often seen it, else he might have sung with us: 

" I love my Country's pine-clad hills, 
Her thousand bright and gushing rills, 
Her sunshine and her storms; 
Her rough and rugged rocks, that rear 
Their hoary heads, high in air 
In wild fantastic forms. 

" I love her rivers, deep and wide. 
Those mighty streams that seaward glide, 
To seek the ocean's breast; 
Her smiling fields, her pleasant vales, 

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Her shady dells, her flow'ry dales, 
The haunts of peaceful rest." 

Maine has been "away down East," overshadowed by 
Boston and Massachusetts, which received the fostering 
hand of Cromwell's Puritan Government of Great Britain, 
when the Pemaquid Colony was only a Presbyterian settle- 
ment, and the whole coast of Maine exposed to the incur- 
sions of its eastern rivals. Being upon the highway from 
the Old World to the New, it has born the brunt of all the 
wars, whether with the French or British; having been 
desolated by our enemies in the old French war, that of 
the Revolution, and that of i8i2. In all these conflicts, 
as well as in the war of the Rebellion, its great shipping 
industry suffered incalculably. 

Though Maine was a distinct province or provinces from 
1635 to 1692, sometimes governed by proprietors, some- 
times by royal governors, independent of Massachusetts, 
and the eastern portion of it, called Eastern Sagadahoc, 
for a long portion of the time by the French, it was so 
long known and treated as a part of the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, that the fact of its existence as a distinct 
or separate province has been almost forgotten, and prac- 
tically ignored, even in many of our popular school histo- 
ries. 

It is due to our Fatherland that its history should be 
brought again to the front. That its early discoverers and 
colonists should be duly recognized, and the part it has 
played in the history of the colonization and settlement of 
the Country, in sustaining other colonies, in obtaining our 
independence, and protecting the freedom of the seas, 



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should be recorded on livdng pages, both in bold outline 
and detail, and thus not only save from oblivion, but en- 
grave upon the grateful hearts of the present generation, 
the heroic conduct and services of the men and women of 
our beloved homeland, who, in all history, have never been 
surpassed for courage, heroism, endurance, and fidelity. 

I did not intend to make any personal allusions to the 
sons of our native State who have distinguished themselves 
among us. But I must make an exception in the case of 
two representative men who have gone to their long homes. 
The love of liberty and the sacredness of human rights 
have found such bold, courageous, and persistent cham- 
pions and defenders in the two Lovejoys, adopted citizens 
of Illinois, who died in their Country's service, that I can 
not pass them over. Owen was known to us all. His 
voice echoed all over our great prairies in the early anti- 
slavery or abolition contests, and was not less recognized 
on the floor of Congress, as a champion in freedom's hosts. 
The other brother died earlier, though his services were 
not rewarded with official political station, he was an earlier 
leader in freedom's cause, and offered up his life in our 
own adopted State, upon the altar of the right of free dis- 
cussion and the maintainance of a free press. 

He was a representative pioneer, Maine man — a bold, 
fearless, and aggressive pioneer for freedom and human 
rights — a bold, courageous, fearless, and conscientious 
christian. His name was Elijah Parish Lovejoy. He was 
born in Albion, Kennebec County, November 8, 1802. 
Was graduated at Waterville College, and murdered by a 
pro-slavery mob at Alton, in this State, on the night of 



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November 7, 1837. Let me quote here a few lines from 
his "Farewell to my Native Land:" 

"Land of my birth, I love thee, 
Though thy hills are bleak. 
And piercing cold thy winds, 
Health sits upon thy rugged brows. 
And blooms in all thy vales; 
Thy laws are just, or if they ever lean, 
'Tis to sweet mercy's side, at jnty's call. 
Thy sons are noble, in whose veins there runs 
A richer tide than Europe's kings can boast; 
The blood of freemen; blood which oft has flowed 
In freedom's holiest cause; and ready yet to flow, 
If need should be, ere it would curdle down 
To the slow, sluggish stream of slavery. 
Thy daughters, too, are fair, and beauty's mien 
Looks still the lovelier, graced with purity. 
For these I love thee; and if these were all, 
Good reason were there that thou shouldst be loved. 
But other ties, and dearer far than all, 
Bind fast my heart to thee. 

Who can forget the scenes in which the doubtful ray 
Of reason first dawned o'er him? 

Can memory e'er 
Forsake the home where friends, where parents dwell?" 

There were prophetic words in these lines. The blood 
of freemen, blood which oft has flowed in freedom's holiest 
cause, and was ready yet to flow, found martyrial recogni- 
tion in his life and death. He had that true grit which 
can never be subdued. 

" Freedom's battle once begun, 
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, 
Though baffled oft, is ever won." 

Noble martyr he! Three times had his presses been 



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destroyed by the slave power, yet he never backed down 
or hesitated in the defence of his rights. His fourth press 
departed only with his life. When met by a disguised 
mob, who disclosed to him that they had determined to 
tar and feather him, and then set him adrift in the Missis- 
sippi River, in a canoe they had obtained for that purpose, 
he immediately replied to them : 

"Gentlemen, I have but a single request to make of you. 
My wife is dangerously ill, and it is necessary she should 
have this prescription immediately, which I was on the 
way to town to procure. Will one of you take it and see 
that it is delivered at the house, but without intimating 
what is about to befall me.^ I am in the hands of God, 
and am ready to go with you." 

He was saved from this outrage and degradation solely 
by the declaration of a Southern medical man, who was 
one of this mob, exclaiming: "Boys, I can't lay my hand 
upon as brave a man as this is." He was the first martyr 
among the citizens of Illinois, who, by a violent death, 
gave his life for freedom. Lincoln was the second. 

Whatever may have been our opinions upon the subject 
of the slavery agitation at that time, the heroic, fearless, 
and enduring courage of Elijah Parish Lovejoy has raised 
a monument to his memory, and entitled his descendants 
to engrave Dirigo on their shield and the monument over 
his grave. 

In forming this societ)^, we have but taken a step in the 
performance of a duty we owe to our Maine family. Let 
us imitate the example set us by those faithful and true 
men who have established and now maintain the Maine 
Historical Society, rescued the early history of the State 



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from oblivion, and in the foundation stones of Fort Pop- 
ham caused to be perpetuated the true history of the dawn 
of New England colonization. 

We need not to create here an historical society, but we 
should liave at least an alcove or its equivalent in the Chi- 
cago Historical Society or elsewhere, and fill it with the 
historical literature and biography of the sons of the Em- 
pire State of New England. We should encourage and 
build up a family feeling among all the sons of our native 
State, who have their homes in rich, bountiful, and grate- 
ful Illinois; and, at each and all of our meetings, instruc- 
tive and interesting papers should be presented, relating 
to the family of the " Mayne Lande," whether at home or 
abroad. 

Shall I trespass on forbidden ground if I further allude to 
the Maine men in Illinois and the Northwest.^ I should like 
to have sketches of their lives to be placed and preserved 
in the archives of this Society. While waiting for the 
accomplishment of this, it may not be subject to criticism 
to say that with their record we are content. • 

Courage and endurance are among the highest of vir- 
tues. Cowardice and indecision, the weakest of vices. To 
colonize a new country, lay the foundation of its institu- 
tions, dev'elop its capabilities, encourage and protect its 
industries, and provide for the education of its people, and 
their governmental protection by just and equal laws, are 
among the highest civil duties of our race. 

Not without toil is heaven's palace won, 
Or victory's race with faultering footsteps run; 
That which with greatest labor is possessed, 
We prize the longest, and we love the best. 



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SKETCH OF THE ORGANIZATION 

OF THE 

SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF MAINE 

IN ILLINOIS. 



Early in March, 1880, Mr. William H.Arnold suggested 
to Mr. John S. Brewer the forming of a "Sons of Maine" 
Society in Chicago, to which Mr. Brewer replied: "Yes, 
I have been for a long time thinking we should have such 
an organization." It was then arranged that Mr. Arnold 
should secure a place for the meeting, and Mr. Brewer 
would put an advertisement or call for the meeting in the 
newspapers, both of which were done, and on March nth, 
1880, the first meeting was held at the Gardner House. 

There were present at this meeting: 
William H. Arnold, James D. Marston, 

John S. Brewer, Charles M. Morse, 

Ge(jrge W. Getchell, Charles H. Noyes, 

J. L. Hathaway, John J. P. Odell, 

Ambrose D, Hayward, Dillwyn V. Purington, 

RoswELL Z. Herrick, James P. Smith, 

Benjamin H. Hinds, O. M. Soper, 

Charles P. Kimball, I^eonard Swett, 

Edward B. Knox, Abner Taylor, 

Arthur A. Libby, Charles A. Tinkham, 

Charles P. Libby, Joshua E. Waterhouse, 

Nathaniel P. Wilder. 



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Hon. Leonard Swett called the meeting to order, and 
stated that the meeting was called for the purpose of 
organizing a society in this City to be made up from 
natives of the State of Maine. 

On motion of Mr. Arnold, Mr. Swett was made perma- 
nent chairman, and John S. Brewer, secretary. 

Mr. Benjamin H. Hinds moved and it was carried that 
a committee of three or more persons be appointed by the 
chair, who, together with the chairman and secretary, pre- 
pare a plan of organization, constitution, by-laws, etc. 

The chair appointed: 
Charles P. Kimball, John J. P. Odell, Abner Taylor. 

The committee was also authorized to call the next 
meeting, when ready to report. 

They issued the following call : 

An informal meeting was held at the Gardner House, on the 
1 2th instant, at which it was resolved to form a Society of the 
gentlemen born in the State of Maine and now citizens of Illinois. 
The object of the society, for the present, will be simply to culti- 
vate with each other more intimate personal relations, and to 
revive and perpetuate the memories of our early home and native 
State. 

In furtherance of the movement, the undersigned beg leave to 
invite all the sons of Maine, now residing in Illinois, to meet at 
the Club-Room of the Palmer House, on the 27th day of March, 
1880, at 7.30 P.M., for the purpose of perfecting such organiza- 
tion. 

William H. Arnold, W. W. Kimball, 

John S. Brewer, Edward B. Knox, 

Thomas Drummond, J. D. Marston, 

George L. Dunlap, Charles H. Noyes, 



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Ambrose D. Hayward, John J. P. Odell, 

RoswELL Z. Herrick, I. B. Parsons, 

John N. Jewett, Leonard Swett, 

Charles P. Kimball, Charles A. Tinkham. 

The meeting adjourned one week. 

April 3, 1880, the third meeting was held; Charles P. 
Kimball presiding. 

The committee on nominations reported: 
Judge Thomas Drumisiond, President. 
Hon. Leonard Swett, - ist Vice-President. 
Hon. J. Young Scammon, 2d Vice-President. 
Hon. Melville W. FyLLER, j^ Vice-President. 
John S. Brewer, - - Secretary. 
John J. P. Odell, - Treasurer. 

Directors: 
John H. Clough, Charles P. Kimball, 

George L. Dunlap, Charles M. Morse, 

John N. Jewett, Benjamin V. Page, 

Abner Taylor. 
Mr. Fuller not having signed the roll of membership, 
Mr. George M. How moved that this meeting do not now 
elect a third vice-president — which was adopted. 

The meeting then elected the officers, as proposed by 
the committee, excepting third vice-president. 

June 15, 1880, at a regular meeting, Hon. J. N. Jewett 
was elected third vice-president. 

At the meeting, December 15, 1880, it was voted that 
the Society have a banquet on 15th of March, 1881, and 
that a committee of five be appointed to take charge of 
all matters pertaining to it. 



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George L. Dunlap, Benjamin H. Hinds, 

Henry A. Hersey, John N. Jewett, 

Charles P. Kimball, 

were appointed the committee. 

This committee was afterward increased to ten members, 
whose names appear below. Mr. Swett was afterward 
added to the banquet committee, making the number 
eleven. 

At the meeting, March 15, 1881, the banquet committee 
reported that, owing to the fearful weather, they had not 
been able to get favorable responses to invitations issued 
to Eastern people to be present at the banquet, and had 
postponed the banquet to June 16, 1881, at the Palmer 
House, Chicago. 

At this annual meeting, the election of officers for the 
ensuing year was held. 

Invitations to the banquet were sent to the governor, 
and all the ex-governors of Maine, to the two United 
States senators, and to many gentlemen, natives of the 
State, distinguished in public and private life. The parties 
were to be the guests of the Society from the tinie of their 
leaving Boston till their return. A member of the So- 
ciety, and of the general committee on banquet, Henry A. 
Hersey, Esq., met the invited guests at Boston, and accom- 
panied them in a special car to Chicago, leaving Boston, 
Tuesday morning, June 14, and arriving in Chicago on the 
evening of the succeeding day. 

The following was the invitation sent : 



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Society of the Sons of the State of Maine. 

Yourself and Ladies are respectfully requested to be present 
at a banc^uet, to be given by the Society of the Sons of the State 
of Maine, in Illinois, at 8 o'clock, on the evening of Thursday, 
June i6th, i88r, at the Palmer House, in the City of Chicago. 

A special car will be furnished from Boston and return, for 
friends coming from the East, and they are invited to be the 
guests of the Society from the time of leaving Boston. 

In order that necessary arrangements may be made, you are 
requested to notify the chairman of the Committee on Invitations 
at an early day, whether or not the Society may expect the pleas- 
ure of your presence. 

Thomas Drummond, Pres't. 

John S. Brewer, Sec'y. 

Committee on Invitations: 
Leonard Swett, Chairman, 
John N. Jewett, Abner Taylor. 

General Committee on Banquet: 
Charles P. Kimball, Chairman, 
George L. Dunlap, Arthur A. Libby, 

Henry A. Hersey, Dillvvvn V. Purington, 

George M. How, Leonard Swett, 

John N. Jewett, Abner Taylor, 

W. W.' Kimball, Elihu B. Washburne. 

The banquet was held, and a full account of the same 
was published in the daily papers and in pamphlet form, 
and generally distributed. 

March 15, 1882. The Society met and adjourned to 
April 13, 1882. 

At the meeting, April 13, 1882, the following gentlemen 
were elected officers for ensuing year: 



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Hon. J. Young Scammon, Presidait. 
Edwin Lee Brown, - ist Vice-President. 
Abner Taylor, - 2d Vice-Preside/ii. 

Arthur A. Libby, - jd Vice-President. 

Frank E. Johnson, - Secretary. 
Newton Goodwin, - Treasurer. 

Directors: 
George D. Baldwin, Benjamin V. Page, 

George. M. How, George Payson, 

Charles M. Morse, Dillwyn V. Purington, 

Rodney Welch. 



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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 

Adopted April 3, 1880. 
Corrected to October, 1882. 



The undersigned, bom in the District or State of 
Maine, but now citizens of the State of Ilh'nois, hereby 
agree to form a Society, and to be governed by the fol- 
lowing Articles of Association : 

ARTICLE I. 
The association shall be called The Society of the 
Sons of the State of Maine. 

ARTICLE J I. 

The objects of the Society shall be to cultivate friendly 
relations with each other, and to receive and perpetuate 
the memories of our early homes and native State. 

ARTICLE III. 

Any gentleman born in the District or State of Maine, 
of lawful age and good moral character, residing in the 
State of Illinois, may become a member of the Society at 
the Organization, by signing the Roll of Membership and 
paying the Initiation Fee of Five Dollars. 

ARTICLE IV. 
The Officers shall consist of a President; First, Second, 
and Third Vice-Presidents; Secretary; and Treasurer; 
who, together with seven other persons, shall constitute a 



Board of Directors, all of whom shall be elected from the 
members, and their term of office shall be for one year, or 
until their successors shall be elected and assume the 
duties of office. 

Five Directors shall constitute a quorum. 

Any vacancy occurring in the Board between the annual 
meetings may be filled by the Board of Directors, until an 
election shall be held by the Society for the unexpired 
term. 

Signing the Roll of Membership and election of Officers 
shall constitute the Organization of the Society. 

ARTICLE V. 

All Elections shall be by ballot under the direction of 
Inspectors to be appointed by the presiding-officer, and a 
majority of all the votes cast shall elect. 

ARTICLE VI. 
The President shall preside at the meetings of the So- 
ciety, have power to call special meetings, and perform 
such other duties as are ordinarily incident to his office. 

ARTICLE VII. 

The duties of the President shall devolve upon the Vice- 
Presidents in the order of their designation, whenever the 
President shall be absent, or for any reason fail to dis- 
charge them. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

The Secretary shall keep a Record of the meetings and 
proceedings of the Society; shall give notice to the mem- 
bers of all general or special meetings, and have the cus- 



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tody of the books, papers, and archives of the Society. He 
shall also keep a book in which these Articles of Associa- 
tion shall be recorded, \\\t\\ the names of the members 
subscribed thereto, together with their place of birth, oc- 
cupation, and residence. He shall discharge all other 
duties incident to his office not herein especially enumer- 
ated. 

ARTICLE IX. 

TJie Treasurer shall keep all the funds of the Society, 
and disburse them under the direction and subject to the 
approval of the Board of Directors. He shall keep vouch- 
ers for all disbursements, and make reports to the Society 
once a year, or oftener, if required by the Board of Di- 
rectors. 

ARTICLE X. 

The Board of Directors shall have the management and 
control of the affairs of the Society, subject to such general 
directions as may be made by the Society. 

ARTICLE XI. 

The Annual meeting shall be held March 15th of each 
year. When the 15th of March occurs on Sunday it shall 
be held the next day following. The second meeting dur- 
ing the year shall be held Oct. 15th, with the same pro- 
vision as to the 15th coming on Sunday. 

ARTICLE XII. 

Any gentleman born in the District or State of Maine, 
and residing in the State of Illinois, may, after the organ- 
ization, upon the recommendation of two members, become 
a member of the Society, upon signing the Roll of Mem- 



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bership, and paying to the Treasurer the Initiation Fee 
hereinbefore provided for. 

ARTICLE XIII. 
The Directors shall have power to suspend any member 
from the privileges of the Society, subject to an appeal to 
the members at any general or special meeting. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

Special meetings shall be called by the Secretary,' on 
application made to him in writing, by any five members 
of the Society, stating the objects and purposes for which 
they desire such meeting called. 

ARTICLE XV. 
Honorary members may be elected as members of this 
Society by a vote. 

ARTICLE XVI. 

These articles may be amended at any general meeting, 
notice of the change proposed having been given at a pre- 
vious cfeneral meetins;. 



APPENDIX 



LIST OF OFFICERS ELECTED MARCH 1 5, 1 883: 

Edwin Lee Brown, - Prexitient. 
Georoe M. How, - i.s^ Vice-President. 

Arthi'R a. Libby, - M Vice-President. 
Erastits Foote, - od Vice-Preddenf. 

Newton Goodwin, - Secretary. 
William Sprague, Treasurer. 

Directors: 
George- Payson, J. B. Hobbs, 

Charles M. Morse, Benjamin V. Page, 

William E. Frost, James P. Smith, Jr., 

Henry A. Hersey. 



LIST OF OFFICERS ELECTED MARCH 1 5, 1 884 

George M. How, - President. 

John N. Jewett, - Isf Vice-President. 

Melville W. Fuller, :.^d Vice-President. 

0. P. Felch, - - 3d Vice-President. 

Newton Goodwin, - Secretary. 

William Sprague, - Treasurer. 

Directors: 
Charles P. Kimball, J. B. Hobbs, 

William G. Be ale, Charles M. Morse, 

James P. Smith, Jr. Ben.jamin V. Page, 

Leonard Swett. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS, 

Corrected up to February, 188r>. 



ANDROSC()C;(;i N CO UN TV. 

Frost, William E Lewiston Canal, cor. VV. l'2th St. 

HoBBs, J. B Sabattus 343 LaSalle Ave. 

Little, Francis B Miuot 101 Ashland Ave. 

Little, Josi.\h Minot Amboy, 111. 

Stevens, Enoch B Livermore 170 Washington St. 

Stevens, Joshua S Livermore 162 Washington St. 

Washburne, Elihu B Livermore 365 Dearborn Ave. 

(Honorary Member.) 

AROOSTOOK CO UNIV. 
Gary, W. H., Jr Houlton '276 W. 18th St. 

CUMBERLAND C O U N T V. 

DuNLAP, George L Brunswick ....:... .328 Dearborn Ave. 

Evans, A. H Portland Nat'l Bank of America. 

Goodwin, Newton Baldwin 11 Merchants Bldg. 

Gross, Charles S New Gloucester. . . .31 Superior St. 

Gross, G. M New Gloucester 238 Monroe St. 

HoBBS, F. M Falmouth Yorkville, 111. 

How, George M Portland 50-1 Counselman Bldg. 

LiBBY, Arthur A Deering 3357 Michigan Ave. 

Libby, Charles P Deering 3358 Michigan Ave. 

MoRDOUGH, John C Westbrook City of Mexico. 

Noble, Frederick A Baldwin 534 Washington Blvd. 

Parker, H. B Westbrook 251 Madison St. 

Payson, George Portland 204 Dearborn St. 

Snow, E. E .... Brunswick 216 Monroe St. 

SouLE, F. A Freeport 108 Dearborn St. 

TiNiiHAM, Charles A Portland Nat'l Bank of America. 

Waterhouse, Joshua E Portland 

Whitmore, W. C Windham 149 W. -Marble Place. 



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FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

Brett, F. E Strong 251 Madison St. 

French, T. Allen New Sharon '224 Wabash Ave. 

Morse, Charles M Wilton Jacksonville, 111. 

HANCOCK C O U N l' V. 

Benson, Wendell Tremont 3819 Dearborn St. 

Gross, J.a.mes E Bucksport 48 Madison Street. 

Herbert, Georcje Ellsworth Deceased. 

HoDUKiNs, J Lamoine 162 Washington St. 

Preble, William H Cranberry Isles ... .75 Ohio St. 

Sargent, George M Sedgwick 142 Dearborn St. 

KENNEBEC C O U N T V. 

Arnold, William H Sidney Deceased. 

Baldwin, George D Mount Vernon 8 Chamber Commerce. 

Beale, William G Winthrop 30 Honore Building. 

Burrell, John F China 

Chadwick, William H Gardiner 84 LaSalle St. 

Clough, John H Eeadtield 69 So. -Water St. 

Frost, A. H ^Monmouth 43 So. -Desplaines St. 

Fuller, Henry W Augusta 222 Randolph St. 

Fuller, Melville W Augusta 152 Dearborn St. 

(iEtchell, George W Waterville 158 LaSalle St. 

Hanscom, Phineas L Monmouth 106 Madison St. 

Hayward, Ambrose D Augusta 25 Bryant Ave. 

Hopkins, M Gardiner Eagle Grove, la. 

Hopkins, Sukner Gardiner 05 Clark St. 

Howard, C. H Leeds ( Ueucoe, 111. 

Lincoln, A. A Hallowell 21 Lake St. 

Lyford, (>. S Mount Vernon 123 Dearborn St. 

Matthews, William Waterville 18 Ashburton PI., Boston 

Mulliken, C. H Augusta 107 Dearborn St. 

Nichols, C. K Augusta 147 LaSalle St. 

Nutting, John B Gardiner 125 Clark St. 

Page, Benjamin V .Hallowell 40 Michigan Ave. 

PuRiNGTON, DiLLwvN V Sidney 178 LaSalle St. 

Smith, James P., Jr Waterville 145 Monroe St. 

Sprague, William Hallowell 205 Randolph St. 

Springer, F. W Gardiner 79 Dearborn St. 

Springer, George A Gardiner 79 Dearborn St. 

Stevens, R. (t Fayette 89 Maxwell St. 

Stevens, William C Fayette 24 Adams St. 

Tilton, F. C Belgrade 193 Washington St. 

Welch, Rodney Mt)nmouth 743 Carroll Ave. 



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KNOX COUNTY, 
ToLMAN, D. H West Camden 1G4 Uandcilph St. 

LINCOLN C O U;N T \'. 

Drummond, Thomas Bristol Wintield, 111. 

Erskine, F: P Wiscasset Wiscasset, Me. 

Fitch, J. B Bristol 222 Clybourn Ave. 

FooTE, Erastus Wiscasset 95 Dearborn St. 

Gaubert, Charles H Richmond Deceased. 

Hinds, Benjamin H Bremen 

LiNSCOTT, A. N Jefterson 170 Dearborn St. 

Payson, H. R ; Wiscasset 71 Washington St. 

ScAMMON, J. Young Whitefield 35 Clark St. 

Trott, Stimson E Whitefield Wilmington, 111. 

OXPM)RI) COUNTY. 

Cobb, Frank H Hebron 133 LaSalle St. 

Colby, John A Freybnrg 217 State St. 

Cox, Thomas J Dixtield Bloomington, 111. 

Hersey, Charles A Paris 

Hersey, Henry A Paris 

Johnson, Frank E Denmark 25-7 Chamb. Commerce. 

Kimball, Charles P Bethel 359 Waba.sh Ave. 

Kimball, W. W Rumford Cor. State & Adams Sts. 

Prince, E. M Turner Bloomington, 111. 

Shedi), Ezra T Norway 3759 Vincennes Ave. 

Stevens, Isaac T Norway 123 Fifth Ave. 

SwETT, Leonard Turner 48 Montauk Block. 

P E N O B S C 1' COUNT Y. 

Ames, Charles L Bangor 48 So.-Desplaines St. 

Dupee, John, Jr Bangor 23 Chamber Commerce. 

Eddy, John N (Jorinth 118 Market St. 

Fell(Avs, Charles S Bangor 38 Throop St. 

Haskell, L. P. . . . Bangor 125 State St. 

Herrick, Roswell Z Corinth Stock-Yds. Nat'l Bank. 

Hill, D. H Exeter Cor. Clark & Madison. 

Miller, W. E Howland 38 W.-Quincy St. 

Parsons, J. B Glenl)uru Dwaght, 111. 

Persons, Volney T Bangor .31 Oak Ave. 

Philbrick, George A Coriinia 162 Washington St. 

Rice, Edward P Bangor 18 Major Block. 

Rice, F. Willis Dexter Tremont House. 



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Rice, Henry W Bangor 152 LaSalle St. 

Rice, William H, Bangor 60 Park Ave. 

Smith, Frederick B Bangor 117 Wabash Ave. 

Smith, T. H Orrington R. 6. 161 LaSalle St. 

Stinchfield, ('. H Corinth 162 Washington St. 

Taylor, Abner Bangor 151 LaSalle St. 

Watson, L. H Bangor 297 Indiana St. 

Wheeler, H. A ( )rrington 59 Wabash Ave. 

Pl.SCATAQUlS COUNTY. 

Averill, (George B Dover 240 W.-VanBuren St. 

Brown, Edwin Lee Milo Cor. Clinton & Jackson. 

(tReeley, Council Dover 2416 Michigan Ave. 

S A t; A L) A HOC (. O U N V Y. 

Farnham, R. E Woolwich C.-&-N.-W. R'y Office. 

Potter, Edwin A Arrowsic 90 Wabash Ave. 

Powtcrs, V. B Bath 1 23 So. -Water St. 

RoBB, Thomas P Bath 79 Dearborn St. 

SOMER.SET COUNTY. 

Crowell, Henry A Madison 

Emery, W. H Fairfield Oak Park, 111. 

Evans, D. W Brighton 3055 Lyman St. 

(lETCHELL, E. F North Anson 2210 Michigan Ave. 

Hathaway, J. L Skowhegan 38 Market St. 

Hill, James M New Portland 3910 Langley Ave. 

Hilton, C. C Madison DesMoines, Iowa. 

Jewett, John N Palmyra Reaper Block. 

Rawson, Charles L New Portland 90 So. -Water St. 

Stickney, (4eor(JE North Anson 9 Wabash Ave. 

W A L D R O C O U N T V. 

Brown, Moses D Appleton 69 Dearborn St. 

Small, A. E Lincoln Central Music-Hail. 

Thurston, Stephen R Searsport 195 Wabash Ave. 

WASHINGTON COUNTY, 

Balkam, F. f4 Calais 222 Madison St. 

Balkam, Smith T * . . Calais 

Brewer, John S Calais 156 Lake St. 

Haycock, K. C Calais 487 Wabash Ave. 

Knox, Edward Burgen Eastport 13 Metropolitan Block. 



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NoYES, Charles H Eastport 27 Oustoin House. 

Odell, John J. P Eastport Utuoii National Bank. 

Porter, H. H Machias ^^H I'ortland Block. 

Shackford, Samuel Eastport Winnetka, 111. 

Underwood, ( ieorge R Eastport 

Whitney, Frank J Milltowu M.-O. R. R. Office. 

WooDCOfiK, John N Robbinston Clifton House. 

YORK C(.)U N rv. 

Dole, John N Limerick 59 \V.- Randolph St. 

Dow, S. K Buxton f3 Metropolitan Block. 

Feloh, C P Limerick 107 Dearborn St. 

Hanson, Z. P Buxton 304 Washington Blvd. 

Hayes, Frank Limerick 59 W. -Randolph St. 

Pierce, D. A Waterboro Hyde Park, 111. 

Pope, Samuel I Wells 193 Lake St. 

Stevens, John A Newfield 3028 Grovel'd-P'k Ave. 

SwETT, W. H Newfield 168 LaSalle St. 

Tucker, Joseph F Saco 111. -Cent. R. R. Office. 

Warren, C. A South Berwick 



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